HR Business Partner, Principal

Your Role

The Stellarus HRBP team partners with leaders to build organizations that can scale innovation, deliver results, and create an exceptional employee experience. The Principal, HR Business Partner, will report to the Senior Director, HR Business Partners for Stellarus. In this role you will be accountable for shaping and executing people strategies that enable Stellarus’ business strategy. The Principal, HR Business Partner translates business priorities into integrated talent, organization, and leadership solutions that foster desired business results and a culture that is fit for purpose. This role has significant influence at the Senior Vice President, Vice President and Director levels, requires strong consulting and systems thinking skills, and demands comfort delivering candid guidance with empathy in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner to executive leaders on organizational design, workforce planning, and operating model evolution, ensuring the business has the capability to execute today and capacity to scale tomorrow.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, reinvent and augment work with technology.
• Apply an outside-in lens, leveraging market trends, workforce data, and external best practices to shape forward-looking people solutions.
• Consult on leadership team effectiveness, decision making, and ways of working to improve both performance and employee experience.
• Partner with leaders to strengthen accountability for performance, development, and engagement outcomes.
• Collaborate closely with People & Engagement Centers of Excellence (COEs) to deliver seamless, practical, and scalable solutions.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required; Master’s degree preferred.
• Requires 10+ years of progressive HR experience, with a strong track record operating as a strategic HR Business Partner in complex, fast moving environments.
• Requires experience operating in a high growth technology, matrixed, or transformation-oriented environment.
• Requires demonstrated expertise in organization design, talent strategy, succession planning, and change leadership.
• Requires proven ability to leverage data, analytics, and business insights to inform people decisions and influence leaders.
• Exceptional consulting, coaching, and communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages for different audiences.
• Strong business acumen, including comfort engaging with financial and operational data.
  Preferred credentials may include SPHR, SHRM-SCP or equivalent senior-level HR or transformation-focused certifications.

ABOUT THE TEAM
About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies

Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.

Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company.

Stellarus’ vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus’ objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California’s vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.

To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.

Our Values:

At Stellarus, our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.